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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to handle variable with special character? Post 303026285 by Corona688 on Friday 23rd of November 2018 10:42:34 AM
Old 11-23-2018
I think I finally get it -- that grep is supposed to find the line in the file you want. What for, I'm not certain, as you don't use the file for anything, yet. So I'm also wild-guessing that the 'dir' part of the file ends up being part of the destination file name.

Please try this code and see if it does anything like what you want. It won't actually move any files, just print 'mv inputfile outputfile'.
Code:
#!/bin/ksh

# We use a function, so overwriting $1 $2 ... won't affect anything outside
function checkfile {
        dir="$1"
        set -- "${2}"* # Match one or more files, placing in local $1 $2 ...
        if [ ! -f "${1}" ]
        then
                echo "${1} not found" >&2
                return 1
        fi

        echo mv "${1}" "${1}_${dir}"
}

while IFS=", " read dir filename # Split input upon spaces and commas
do
        # Skip lines where filename doesn't match the argument given.
        [ "$1" = "$filename" ] || continue
        # call checkfile.  Inside checkfile, $1=$dir and $2=$filename
        checkfile "$dir" "$filename"
done<masterfile

Last edited by Corona688; 11-23-2018 at 11:49 AM..
 

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SYNOPSIS

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